apodeictic

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/ˌapəˈdaɪk.tɪk/

adjective

Affording proof; demonstrative.

Opposite
Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveapodeictic (not comparable)

alternative apodictic

  1. not comparableAffording proof; demonstrative.
  2. not comparableIncontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
  3. not comparablehuman sciencesOf the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.

    Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations.

    2009, Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, Matthias Steup, A Companion to Epistemology
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    1855, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (translator), 1787, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 2nd Edition, Thus, moreover, the principles of geometry- for example, that "in a triangle, two sides together are greater than the third," are never deduced from general conceptions of line and triangle, but from intuition, and this a priori, with apodeictic certainty.

    Aristotle does, indeed, distinguish between (1) Logic, or Analytic, as the theory or method of arriving at true or apodeictic conclusions; and (2) Dialectic as the method of arriving at conclusions that are accepted or pass current[ly] as true,...

    1896, Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, The Art of Controversy, published 1831

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite

adjectiveof a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἀποδεικτικός
  2. Englishapodeictic

From Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτικός (apodeiktikós). Compare Latin apodicticus.

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Translations

Catalan apodíctic
  • apodícticincontrovertibly true or false
French apodictique
  • apodictiqueincontrovertibly true or false
Portuguese apodíctico, apodítico
  • apodícticoincontrovertibly true or false
  • apodíticoincontrovertibly true or false
Spanish apodíctico
  • apodícticoincontrovertibly true or false
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Chicago

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